# Public Exemplar Roster — Differentiation Map

> Auto-generated by `scripts/docgen/exemplar_roster.py` from
> `infrastructure.project.public_scope.PUBLIC_PROJECT_NAMES` and each
> exemplar's README/pyproject. Do not edit manually — regenerate instead.

| Exemplar | Title | When to use | Test files | Coverage floor |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| [`templates/template_active_inference`](../../projects/templates/template_active_inference/README.md) | template_active_inference | Use this template when **several independent research tracks must compose into one manuscript whose claims stay consistent where the tracks overlap** — here: a closed-form analytical oracle, a pymdp simulation harness, a Lean formalization boundary, and shared GNN/ontology notation. | 78 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_advanced_literature_review`](../../projects/templates/template_advanced_literature_review/README.md) | Reproducible Multi-Phase Literature-Review Pipeline | Use this template when one review question needs distinct retrieval phases, phase-specific filters, and explicit cross-phase provenance. | 4 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_autoresearch_project`](../../projects/templates/template_autoresearch_project/README.md) | template_autoresearch_project | Use this template when you need a **bounded, offline AutoResearch loop**: deterministic ML candidate evaluation over a fixed local dataset, with evidence-linked claims, machine-readable ledgers, artifact-integrity manifests, and deferred human-review gates. | 20 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_autopoiesis`](../../projects/templates/template_autopoiesis/README.md) | template_autopoiesis | Use this template when you need to **generate runnable project trees deterministically** — not a manuscript, but a whole child project (its own `src/`, `tests/`, `scripts/`, and `manuscript/`) selected by a seed from a combinatoric grammar, with recompute-based provenance verification and a falsifiable honesty manifest against green-by-construction test theater. | 28 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_code_project`](../../projects/templates/template_code_project/README.md) | Code Project — Optimization Research Exemplar | Use this template for **code-driven computational research**: algorithms in `src/`, numerical experiments with deterministic seeds, automated publication-quality figures, and a manuscript that reports the computed results. | 12 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_data_descriptor`](../../projects/templates/template_data_descriptor/README.md) | template_data_descriptor | Use this template when the contribution is a **published dataset or data paper**: a schema contract, file inventory, data dictionary, provenance chain, license boundary, quality checks, and machine-readable descriptor must all stay consistent before publication. | 5 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_eda_notebook`](../../projects/templates/template_eda_notebook/README.md) | EDA Notebook — Exploratory Data Analysis Exemplar | Use this template for **exploratory data analysis on tabular data**: load a dataset, surface missingness, compute descriptive statistics and per-group means, rank features by correlation, and produce a few diagnostic figures. | 9 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_formal`](../../projects/templates/template_formal/README.md) | Formal — Strongly-Typed Multiagent Ant-Robot Colony Exemplar | Use this template when the research subject *is* the type architecture itself: illegal-state-unrepresentable design, session-typed protocols, affine/linear resource-handle discipline, or a decentralized (no-shared-global-state) multiagent simulation that needs its own local storage and local networking per agent. | 25 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_literature_meta_analysis`](../../projects/templates/template_literature_meta_analysis/README.md) | Literature Meta-Analysis Template | Use it whenever the research object is *a body of literature about a topic* and you want every reported number to trace to committed, regenerable artifacts. | 66 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_madlib`](../../projects/templates/template_madlib/README.md) | Template Madlib — Deterministic Token-Injection Exemplar | Use this template when you need **configuration-driven manuscript generation with auditable token provenance, conditional section structure, explicit/default field visibility, failure-boundary reporting, and a reviewer-visible authoring contract**: lexicon categories, section titles, narrative moves, method steps, design principles, pipeline phases, evaluation criteria, QA probes, failure modes, authoring obligations, visualization controls, audit rules, and slots are declared in YAML; `src/` deterministically expands those declarations; and the manuscript receives large-grain `{{TOKEN}}` bodies only after the source code has generated the supporting artifacts. | 5 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_newspaper`](../../projects/templates/template_newspaper/README.md) | The Triplicate — `template_newspaper` | Use this template when you need **data-driven, large-format print layout**: multi-page broadsheets/tabloids with precise column geometry, typography-first constraints, and strict content/engine separation (YAML editions in `content/`, pure-Python ReportLab engine in `src/`). | 10 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_pools_rules_tools`](../../projects/templates/template_pools_rules_tools/README.md) | template_pools_rules_tools | Use this project when you need to: - **Demonstrate** how a research project integrates multiple resource directories (fonds, tools, rules) in a single pipeline - **Validate** that your fonds, tools, and rule infrastructure modules are correctly wired and discoverable - **Onboard** new teams to the three-resource architecture with a concrete, runnable example - **Test** cross-cutting concern integration where fonds supply data, rules govern validation, and tools execute transforms - **Extend** the architecture by adding new resource types; copy this project as a starting point for integration testing This template is ideal for platform teams, CI engineers, and infrastructure maintainers who need a self-validating meta-project that exercises all three resource layers without coupling to a specific domain science. | 10 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_prose_project`](../../projects/templates/template_prose_project/README.md) | template_prose_project | Use this template for **manuscript-focused editorial pipelines**: readability gates (Flesch-Kincaid bands), structural checking, citation/BibTeX validation, and prose-quality review workflows where the document itself is the artifact under test. | 10 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_autoscientists`](../../projects/templates/template_autoscientists/README.md) | AutoScientists — Coordination-Mechanism Testbed Exemplar | Use this template when you need to **isolate and measure agent-coordination mechanisms**: coordinated teams vs single-thread baselines under matched budgets, deterministic ablation studies, and honest per-mechanism effect reporting (including nulls). | 11 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_gold_refinement`](../../projects/templates/template_gold_refinement/README.md) | Gold Refinement — Metallurgical Manuscript Composition Exemplar | Use this template for **analogical manuscript composition research**: projects that map a scientific domain onto a refinement pipeline and generate the manuscript through deterministic mega-madlib token injection. | 23 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_methods_paper`](../../projects/templates/template_methods_paper/README.md) | A Domain Language for Specifying Controlled Methods — Methods Paper Exemplar | Use this template when the paper you are writing **describes a methodology** rather than reports results: a procedure, protocol, or specification language, where the contribution is the controlled vocabulary and its guarantees (dimensional safety, staged validation, deterministic compilation) rather than a numeric outcome. | 11 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_redacted_report`](../../projects/templates/template_redacted_report/README.md) | template_redacted_report | Use this template when a report needs **formal redaction before release**: classification ceilings, source-control markings, redaction decisions, authority review, reviewer approvals, source-safe hash ledgers, residual-risk checks, mosaic-risk checks, and a public audit packet must be validated before any sanitized narrative is published. | 7 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_registered_report`](../../projects/templates/template_registered_report/README.md) | template_registered_report | Use this template when the core method is a **registered report or preregistered replication**: hypotheses, outcomes, exclusion rules, analysis plan, power or sensitivity rationale, deviation ledger, and confirmatory-versus-exploratory claim boundaries must be locked before results are interpreted. | 4 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_search_project`](../../projects/templates/template_search_project/README.md) | template_search_project | Use this template for **literature-review and evidence-synthesis pipelines**: multi-backend search (arXiv, Crossref, local corpora, optional Paperclip), deduplication, BibTeX generation, and LLM-assisted per-paper and corpus-level synthesis. | 25 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_sia`](../../projects/templates/template_sia/README.md) | template_sia | Use this template when you need a **self-improvement-agent evaluation harness**: Meta → Target → Feedback generation loops, public/private task splits to detect overfitting, deterministic fixture replay for testability, and fail-closed loop validation. | 13 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_storybook`](../../projects/templates/template_storybook/README.md) | The Shape Between - `template_storybook` | Use this template when you need **full-page illustrated PDF storytelling**: picture-book pages, symbolic scenes, character-generation methods, page-level orchestrators, and deterministic raster art assembled into a print-ready PDF. | 3 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_template`](../../projects/templates/template_template/README.md) | Template: Meta-Research Project | Use this template when your research subject is **the repository itself** — programmatic introspection of architecture, pipeline DAGs, module inventories, and security layers, rendered as a manuscript whose every metric is computed live (autopoietic: the paper regenerates itself from the code it describes). | 8 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_textbook`](../../projects/templates/template_textbook/README.md) | The Template Textbook — Modular, Fillable Book Scaffold | Use this template for **book-length manuscripts**: parts → chapters → labs → question banks declared in a single `config.yaml`, with auto-numbering, deterministic figure/diagram generation, and structural-contract tests that keep hundreds of pages from drifting. | 11 | 90% |
| [`templates/template_pitch_deck`](../../projects/templates/template_pitch_deck/README.md) | Template: Pitch Deck | Use this template when you need a pitch, grant report, or recurring stakeholder update treated as a build artifact — bound to live repository facts, validated for unresolved tokens and pitch-deck cliché, and regenerable byte-for-byte from source rather than hand-maintained in a proprietary slide tool. | 12 | 90% |

Each exemplar's README carries the full `## When to use this template`
section; this table shows the first sentence only. Counts here are
static (test *files*); authoritative measured coverage lives in
[`COUNTS.md`](COUNTS.md).